Chris Evans Admits His Captain America Uniform Could Use a Wash

Cobie Smulders skipped the after-party for Monday’s screening of her new movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, because she wanted to watch the finale of her long-running series How I Met Your Mother.

“I’m really sad that How I Met Your Mother is over, for sure,” Smulders said at the Cinema Society and Gucci Guilty screening. “It was a wonderful show, with wonderful people, and I’ll miss them all. I miss them all already,” she said. “But we had nine years. We had a full nine years, and I think that that is very rare these days, so I'm grateful.”

Of course, working on an action flick is a very different experience from a sitcom. “I kick a little butt,” Smulders told VF Daily of her role in Captain America. “I don’t get to hit anybody, but I shoot some people.” Nothing on the set fazed her, but she admitted to being somewhat intimidated by Samuel L. Jackson. “I was at first,” she said. “But he is the kindest, sweetest gentleman.”

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On the other hand,Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, and Sebastian Stan all kick a lotof butt, nonstop, in the movie. “Chris and I rehearsed the fighting sequences for three months, so that’s really us up there,” Stan said. “And also, our stunts were phenomenal.” The fight sequence at the end was the scariest for him, he says. “By that point, we were out of energy, and I would hurt myself all the time. Every take,” Stan said, laughing.

What is it like doing all that running around, in action scenes, in the form-fitting Captain America uniform, complete with shield? “Uh, sweaty,” Evans said. “They’re always a little uncomfortable. I mean, you’re wearing the same thing that has been . . . to be honest, I don’t even think they wash those things. You come to set every day, and you’re like, this kind of smells a little ripe. But, you know, that’s part of the job.”

At the post-screening party at the James Hotel we spotted Victor Cruz, Matt Harvey of the Mets, John Corbett, Isiah Whitlock Jr., and models Helena Christensen and Julie Henderson. Late in the evening, Justin Theroux, Jennifer Aniston’s betrothed, stopped by to hang with Evans and co.

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